Day in photos: Dec. 19, 2012

Palestinian brides sit together during a mass wedding ceremony for 250 couples in Rafah, Gaza Strip.

Reuters

Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg cries out in victory. Her giant slalom runs at the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in Are, Sweden, won her the gold.

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Workers unload the seven-foot-tall 13 that will signal the new year from high atop One Times Square in New York. For now, though, it’s headed to display at the Times Square Museum until Dec. 26.

Reuters

A girl throws away damaged blocks while unloading bricks at a brick factory in Lalitpur, Nepal.

Reuters

Sample-happy DJ Girl Talk drops baloons on the crowd massed around him at the S.S Coachella’s “Music Festival At Sea” in the Bahamas.

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Indian activists listen to a speech at a march outside the home of Delhi’s chief minister in response to the gang-rape of a student on a public bus.

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Heavy frost coats the trees on the bank of the frozen Yenisei River, where the air temperature stands at about -15 degrees Fahrenheit.

Reuters

Confiscated weapons hang from a massive magnet before being destroyed at a foundry in Santiago, Chile, as part of a government arms-control program.

Reuters

Chelsea’s David Luiz comes in a little high with his challenge against Leeds United’s Luciano Becchio during their League Cup quarterfinal match in Leeds. Chelsea dominated, 5-1.

Reuters

A Soyuz rocket — carrying U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to the International Space Station — begins its blastoff from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

AP

A child peers from between firefighters lining the road outside St. Rose of Lima church in Newtown, Conn., for a funeral procession for school shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden.

AP

A woman is silhouetted against London’s Christmas lights as she walks along the south bank of the Thames in the rain.